Ooto Melody

"You are? I am? You're melody! I'm AKB0048's Ooto Melody!"

- Melody's Stage Introduction Catchphrase

Melody Ooto (大音 メロディー) is a member of AKB0048's 153rd Generation.

Melody is also known as Melo (めろ). She's an elegant girl with great piano skills. She's a polite girl who can speak her thoughts if she wishes. Melody tends to believe that she's right with her thoughts. This can end up a bit wrong, if she is actually wrong. She believes that stage-personalities are real and real personalites are made up.

Appearance
Melody has got purple hair and lavander-purple-coloured eyes. Her hair is long and a bit wavy. Her forhead is seen. She's usually shown, wearing her hair without any special hairdos open. As well, her hair is smoothy and thick. Similar to other members of AKB0048, Melody has got a heart-shaped light reflection in her hair. Melody's eyes are purple too. However, the lower part seems to be rather lavander-colored. In her eyes are heart-shaped light reflections too but as well a shape in the form of music sheet notes. It's believed to be there due to her wish to become either a singer or a pianist.

Melody usually chooses rather feminine and elegant clothes without flashy pattern. She loves the colour of old paper and often wears this. Even though her favourite colour is light pink, she mostly never wears this color. Melody is often seen wearing some jewelry. She never wears short things and feels uncomfortable with gravure. She has never done this and isn't planning to do it in the future.

Personality
Melody is a polite and friendly girl with great manners. She's holding herself back and waits for others. However, she often is also arrogant if she's private. Melody has grown up, knowing to be talented and great and due to this, she acts like this. As well, she's selfish as she wishes to be the best. She does anything for this. She has the tendency to be friendly towards people, she believes to be "useful" for herself. Thus, she ignores people who aren't useful.

Melody has great piano-playing skills and a huge love for music in general. She's often seen playing piano and knows many songs by heart. She can lose herself completly in playing and forgets the world around her. Sometimes, she spends the whole day with this and forgets stuff, she had to do.

Melody currently considers Acchan as her Oshimen, even though she wouldn't vote for her in the Sousenkyo or similar. She's also a fan of Sakura the 10th and KatoMina the 8th.

History
Melody grew up on Kazakhstar. As the daughter of a professional pianist and a film director, she always had a connection to the world of stars. Melody had been studing music in general since being a little children. She learned piano since she was very young and loves it. She also learned a few other instruments but didn't continue playing those. Melody had the wish to "do something bigger" with her music since she was eight years old. However, she didn't know what exactly until she actually became interessted in 0048 due to some classmates. She eventually decided to audition but didn't know how her parents, espacilly her mother, would react. After all, she decided to audition and wait for the result before telling her parents and did this. Even though her mother wasn't happy about it, she left.

Team History
153rd Generation
 * Joining the 153rd Generation of Trainees (0124.04.23)

Etymology
Ooto is written as 大音.

大 ("O") can be translated as big or large and 音 ("Oto") as sound. 大音 can also be translated as loud.

Melody is written in Katakana as メロディー.

A melody is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. Source

Achievements
Melody hasn't participled in the Janken Taikai yet.
 * -|Senbatsu Sousenkyo=
 * Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0124 - #3 (Senbatsu)
 * -|Janken Taikai=

Trivia

 * Favourite Colour: Light pink
 * Melody's catchphrase hints her favourite song Kimi wa Melody and her name.
 * She is able to play piano on a quiet good level.
 * She can play some other instruments but not very good. She only knows the basics.
 * Her auddition song was Kanojo.
 * She wants to become a singer or a pianist in the future.
 * There is also proof that she is aspiring to become a singer in her eyes, where there are music note linings alongside the heart linings.
 * Melody's original name was Melodia which became her Character Song's name.
 * Melody believes that relationships like the relationship between Honoka and Miyagi (MiyaMiya/WMiya) and personalities such as Chiyo's and Akari's personality are made up.
 * Ironicly, she believes that members who have an actual onstage self such as Miyagi and Mei, don't act.
 * As well, she believes that personalities or facts like Yuihan's lost memories are made up too.
 * She has the habit of spinning around with her hair.
 * Melody is also a fan of SKE☆48 and her Oshimen was Masaki Amarie.
 * Melody's favourite song is Kimi wa Melody. However, her favourite song to play on the piano is Anata no tame ni hikitai.
 * She loves to read and make up conspiracy theories even though she doesn't believe them very often.
 * Her seiyuu (voice actor) was choosen because she voiced Harune Aira in Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream.
 * Melody doesn't believe that she can succed by being simular to an original member. She believs, it's decided by who is in the management's favor.
 * Melody usually eats vegetarian.